Sunday, November 14, 2010

Maelstrom

I love the way words
roll off my tongue
and make every
minute of expression more
meaningful
when the right ones
are chosen

just like yesterday, when I
used 'maelstrom' in relation
to my life
- it was so accurate
and tasted sweet, though
describing bedlam
and though it turned
the corners of
her mouth so far,
so far
south

and now, too
words flow from frantic fingers
like the furious whirlpool;
blind in direction
but certain in purpose

if ever you'd believe that true.

Copyright Catherine Young, 2010.